braided dough

Dear blog,
How much do I miss you? Let me count the ways. It’s been almost two weeks since my last post and two weeks since I’ve been able to bake. Let us never be apart for so long again!
There have been so many transitions in the last month. I left a job of three years to start anew in a more challenging fitting position with a previous employer. This job is in the District, so that means ...

I haven't made bread in a long time and I thought I could use the practice. I wanted a bit of a challenge with shaping dough, so I chose challah.
The shape and the size of the challah didn’t turn out as expected, but it was very tasty. I think my recipe failed somewhere in the rising process. Ok, so I didn’t feel like going through the 2-step rising process (I was multi-tasking like crazy ...